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Waikato Times, Volume XII, Issue 1006, 3 December 1878, Page 2

Promenade Concert, Hamilton. —lt was intended to have been announced at the close of the Bazaar, oh Fridaynight last, that a grand promenade concert would bo hold in the building to-morrow evening, to realise the cost of erection and taking down of the same, but only that evening it became known to the Bazaar Committee that Friday, the "13th inst., had been announced as the date of a concert to fee held by the Hamilton West School Committee, with the object of providing prizes for the school children, on breaking up for the holidays. The Bazaar Committee at once decided to forego the proposed promenade concert, lest it should clash with and injuriously affect so laudable an object. Since then, however, an arrangement has been come to between the Bazaar and School Committees, by which the one concert shall be held for both objects, and it has, as the announcement in our advertising columns shows, been decided to hold the Grand Promenade Concert, the first of the kind held in Waikato, on Thursday evening next, in the building used for the Bazaar, £9 of the proceeds to be handed over to the School Committee, and the balance to be retained by the Bazaar Committee for the pui'pose for which the concert was first proposed. There will be a good moon on Thursday evening, and a very attractive programme has been sketched out, which will include an original Hamilton alphabet in verse, full, of local hits, amusing but harmless. That, the entertainment will be largely patronised, we make no doubt. The two-fold object is a good one, and should enlist the sympathies of the-public, to say nothing of the fact that those who have the matter in hand are determined to give the audience full value for their money.

We learn from Cambridge that the operation of tapping, performed by Dr Waddington, gave great relief to Major Clare, enabling him to breathe freely, but we regret to add that the doctor holds out. little hope of his ultimate recovery.

SiEALfNtt Fruit. —Oa Saturday a lad named Brown, working for Mr Manders, Ihe son of ono Martin Brown, was taken ioto cus'o.ly by Constable Haddock, on the ch»rge of breaking open a of oranges in the g)ods she! of the railway station at Hami ton, and stealing a q/iantiby of orangas therefrom. ITo wil bo brought up be c ore the bmch upoa thel charge to-morrow miming. A meeting of the Hamilton Borough Council Avas held yesterday evening, to hear objections made to, and finally fix the proposed levels. There were ho objections received, but as no regular plan shewing the levels had been prepared by the Engineer, the meeting was adjotirned till Wednesday evening next, that such plan might be furnished.

The Agricultural Snow3.—An Auckland gentleman, we leam from the 'Herald,' who was present at the late Cattle or Agricultural Show, held in Christchurch, took a few notes rcepecting the exhibits in cattle and sheep, and his ideas on the same (and he is a gentleman whose judgment is second to none in this respect) are, that in longwoolled Lsheep and Lincoln?, our flocks are equal, if not superior, to those that were shewn. In fact, Canterbury had very few exhibits, owing to tho heavy misfortuno that has fallen upon the rnns during the last winter. Ofcago sent a contingent, and but for these the display would have been meagre. In Shorthorns our breeders are a-head, and his decision in this class is very emphatic, as there were none on the ground that could compare with many that could bo brought forward by the Macleans, Fantham*, Mor ins, and others. In fat cattle, the exhibits were really good, the six prize oxen being fine animal'!, and realised .£lO each. Our great weakness, in comparison with Canterbury, is in horses, which our informant admitted freely, saying- that the Show there could scarcely be excelled. The draught mares and fillies of tin Clydesdale and oih ;r similar breeds were a picture, and at a distance, from their symmetry and size, the animals locked ai if they wore entires, so large in frame an-1 condition wore they in comparison to what can bo brought forward here. The high price which a really good draught hor.se fetches here bears out this verdict, and we tru-st our fottiers will devote a 1 tfcle more attention to the breeding of animals of this class. Tiie Bridge over Mystery Crock continue to be unsafe for heavy traffic.

Taranaki Ikon-sand.—At the dinner given on Tuesday last at Now Plymouth to the Nativo Minister and Rewi, the former is roportod to have said:—"As another matter affecting the interests of New Plymouth ho might mention that an. eminent firm of ironmasters in England had applied to the New Zealand Government for five tons of Taranaki iron-sand to test its qualities. He had directed ten tons to be sent home at once."

Tan Tenders for the erection of the Cambridgo Jockey \ Club Grand Stand must be sent in to Mr W. C. Breakell, U.E., on or before Saturday next. Mr W. Jaggs, tailor, of Ngaruawahia, draws attention to his large and well assorted stock of tweed and other cloths, and guarantees a perfect fit. A Quadrille Party, the proo 0 f the which will be applied in aid Cavalry Band Fund, will take .place at the Public Hall,Te Awamutu, on Tuesday next, the 10 th iust.

We would remind our readers, at Cambridge and Pukerimu, that the soiree in aid of the building i nnd of the Trinity Presbyterian Church, Cambridge, will be held to morrow evening. L.O.L.—The usual monthly meetings of the Orange Lodges takes place this week; that of the Sons of Ulster on Thursday evening, at Hamilton, and that of the Wm. Johnson, at Cambridge, on Friday evening next. ;

A special meeting of members of the Cambridge Troop will be held on Saturday next at the Public and Volunteer Hall,. Cambridge, to re-consider matters relative to the late rsview. The Furz-? Nuisance.—Owners and occupiers of property in the Hamilton Highway District are cautioned to remove; the furze growing on roads to which their property ha,s frontage, during the next two months. After which time the work will be done for them, and charged to their expense. A late Gazette, published at Wellington, but not yet arrived here, contains a long schedule of lands in the Pirongia and Karama Parishes transferred to the Auckland Waste Land Board. The Governor's power under the Auckland Impounding Act, 1867, has been transfers 1 to the Town of Raglan District Board.

Tiie dissipation of the Bazaar, the Review and the Racfis was wound up at Hamilton, on Saturday evening, by a ball at the Commercial Hotel. The large room at Pearce's was just sufficiently full to be enjoyable, and till " the witching hours of night, when belles retired and donned their opera cloaks," dancing was kept up with spirit. Rewi spoke plainly, and to the point, when at the banquet on Friday, in response to the toast of his health, proposed by Col. Trimble, he said:—" I belong to the Island. You are a people from over the sea. We are of. different races. On your first arrival we were of two colours. The ministers taught us one language. After that war arose, and the races were kept divided for the reason of the laud question. To-day we are joined for all future. I hope the Europeans will now help the Maoris and the Maoris help the Europeans. All troubles are finished, and I will end by saying, " May you all live long and do good." Between one and two o'clock, yesterday afternoon, while the rain was at its heaviest, Sergt. McGovem met with a little two year old toddler, making his ■way, bareheaded, up Victoria street, Hamilton. On questioning the child, the Sergeant found; as he expected, that it was astray. It could give no account of its name, or whence it came. Enquiry led to the fact that it had been seen making its way up town, from the direction of No. 1 bridge—past the Council Chambers. Sergt. McGovern kindly took the child down to his own home, had it dressed in dry cloths, and instituted enquiries for its parents. About eight o'clock last night, the child was claimed. It had wandered from near No. 1 Bridge. We are glad to learn, from a private telegram, that the' gentleman who " did'' the ' Herald's ' report of the Review and Races, at Ohaupo, on Friday last, is better, the bilious attack from which he was then suffering having passed away. He has since been heard to observe, that if he were now, to re-write the account of the day's proceedings, he would scarcely go so far as to say, " the racing, on the whole, Avas not first-class, owing to many of the horses being of inferior quality. The events were not closely contested. The racing calls for no special remarks." At any rate, he says that having written so much, it Avas very careless of the subeditor to have allowed his scarcely reconcilable discription of the Cavalry Maiden Race to have appeared as written, —" Won by half-a-length. The same distance between second and third." We think so, too. If this Avas not closely contested, Avhat, pray, would satisfy our bilious friend ?

A commencement has, at last, been made upon the traffic bridge over the Waikato, at Hamilton. On Saturday, and yesterday, a large derrick was being erected on the west side the rivei 1 , a little below the proposed site, for the purpose of raising the timber required in the construction of the bridge from the barges. One load, consisting for the most part of heavy pieces of timber, many of them 12 by 10, is already lying alongside, arid more is to follow from the Point. The timber, some three lmndred thousand feet, comes from the Manalfai by way of Port Waikato, and, before long, wc may expect. to see a large proportion of it upon the ground. The contractors have been in no hurry to commence the work, waiting partly for the timber, and partly to allow the river to do down, the water for the present time of year being more than usually high..

Tnu Accident at the Punt.—lt was, we learn, by Mr Moon's forethoug'h.t that the x-emaiacler of the party proceeding- to Cambridge with him, were not on the trap when it drove headlong into the river, at the punt staging, on Friday night last. The break on the trap was known to be a defective one, and Mr Moon f orseeing that once he started down hill to the punt, he could not have proper control by the action of it over the speed of the vehicle, sent his fellow travellers on to the punt ten minutes before he started from the Hamilton hotel, instructing them to have the punt at the staging and. the chains made properly fast before he drove down the approach to it. They went down, but did not see, it seems, to this, and as he passed, as ho thought, on his way onto the punt, they only noticed his'approach, and warned him of his danger when too late. "When horses and trap went over the staging into deop water, Mr Moon fell forward on to the back of one of the horses, and caught hold of an iron rail along the splash board. He then felt in his pocket for his knife to cut the traces, but, recollecting that he had lent it while in the stable yard before starting, cal ed out to Dalton, who was a good swimmer, to swim out to him with a knife. Dalton collod out to him to leave the horses and swim ashore, and, finding they were gobtinjj oub towards mid-stream and

being encumbered with a heavy coat and boots, Mr Moon started for land, and had a prcttj r good swim for it as it was. O.i reluming, ho was told that it would h~i useless to mike any search for the horsos, which probably Would be drowned by that timo, but he was much chagrined to learn next day that two persons had shortly afterwards heard the- animals

snorting in the water as they swam down stream past the ba h-house at the bottom of Mr OJwynno's garden, for, if such had boon made known at the time, a party might have been organised and a boat obtained, and the poor animals saved. It would appear that they broke away from the trap, swimming down stream with the polo between them, in whioh state they were seen next. On the Saturday morning, about 9 o'clock, Messrs Nowali and Skinner saw a pair of horses floating down the river, and having seen in the Waikato Times that Mr Moon had come to grief at Hamilton punt on the night previous, they at once came to the conclusion that they had better follow the horses up. They got- a boat, and went after the horses, co.ning up to them below Mr T. V. Fitzpatrick's residence, on the west bank of the river, just below the junction of the Waipa, in the back current, and were able to g-et the harness off, which was rigged in Yankee fashion, with the pole attached. It seems the clips which connected the pole to the waggon or buggy must have broken when the accident occurred, and the horses thus got loose. They seemed to have struggled hard, but, unfortunately, came to grief some, time before they passed Ngaruawahia. Detective Doolan, soon after, started down the road in search of the hngjgy, • which was supposed to have passed down a couple of hours before the horses were seen. Keeping a close eye on the numerous bends, and on arrival at Taupiri not haying heard anything of the buggy, and leaving word with Mr Lovell to secure it and communicate with the police, Detective Doolan proceeded through the gorge to Huntley. When within about four miles of that place, he passed the horses which Mr Nowali turned adrift after taking off the harness. The steamer Rangiriri passed some wreckage floating between Mesiirs Whitaker ■ and Russell's coalmines and the Whapi Creek. They put the Maori's on the qui vive, and two natives picked np two seats, a cushion, a carriage lamp, and the indespensable wrench, which g cnera'Jy accompanies th-se kind of conveyances These were taken by Detective Doolaa and conveyed to MrßalpVa store, where they will await identification. The search for the conveyance itself ;waa followed up past Huntly, and tha river was searched as far as Te Koharoha and Armitage's, bnt nothing was seen of it, nor yes about the shoales and snags near Brisenden's. Detective Dcolan returned about midnight on Saturday bat without seeing anything of the buggy, Messrs Skinner and Newali, who saved the harness, and the natives, who brought to shore obher portions of the wreckage,, are no doubt deserving of a suitable reward.